George,

What you have come up with, regarding voting in multiple districts, is the same as the discussion about polygamy (illegal in the US) and serial polygamy (quite common with a divorce at about 50% and subsequent marriage often the case).

If a voter were to care enough about issues in particular elections to change his registration to have a vote in another district at a later election (serial voting, as it were) I see no problem. Voting in two or more different localities in the same election, however, (bigamous voting?) would not be legal. Someone running for office could get away (probably only once in the public eye) with changing his residence to run, especially if it were the result of redistricting.

My comments about Wintergreen property owners assumed that they might vote, on a regular basis, in both their true homes and here in Nelson County. A concentrated effort to get Wintergreen folks to change registration to have a say in one election (and then have them change back) could surely influence a single local election. Your analysis suggests that this is possible.

Al Weed (electronic mail, August 29, 2001).